Saudi women allowed to attend football matches for very first time

Ladies in Saudi Arabia can be allowed to attend soccer matches for the primary time on 12 January as a part of the newest reforms to hit Gulf nation.

The ministry of knowledge confirmed that ladies can attend the Al-Ahli versus Al-Batin held within the capital Riyadh, with stadium additionally allowing ladies at different video games in Jeddah on 13 January and Dammam on 18 January.

Below the present legal guidelines within the ultraconservative kingdom, ladies have been unable to attend any sporting event and should additionally get the permission of a male relative – normally a husband, brother or father – in the event that they wish to journey or research or participate in a spread of different actions.

Ladies, who’ve not too long ago solely simply been allowed into the nationwide stadium for the very first time in August, had been additionally permitted to attend a live performance within the Purple Sea metropolis of Jeddah.

The transfer to permit ladies into soccer video games is one in every of a quantity proposed modifications in Saudi Arabia by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a part of the nation’s Imaginative and prescient 2030 reform programme.

Imaginative and prescient 2030 goals to increase beforehand restricted social insurance policies, in addition to diversify the economic system away from oil by opening itself as much as tourism and leisure.

One of many largest shake-ups that ladies within the Gulf state will be permitted to hold driving licences in Saudi Arabia from June 2018, ending a infamous regulation which has been condemned around the globe.